Some people don't care about trailing whitespaces.
Some people do care and think there should be none.
There could be a mix of both in a team.
In relaxed hobby projects it is unpleasant to coerce everyone to one of these philosophies.
However, people who care and set up "remove_trailing_whitespace_on_save": true will run into inconveniences, because their commits will touch unrelated lines.
The "remove_trailing_whitespace_on_save": "only on the lines I modified" variant would minimize conflicts in mixed teams.
notpeter
commented
3 weeks ago
Some people don't care about trailing whitespaces. Some people do care and think there should be none.
There could be a mix of both in a team.
In relaxed hobby projects it is unpleasant to coerce everyone to one of these philosophies.
However, people who care and set up
"remove_trailing_whitespace_on_save": truewill run into inconveniences, because their commits will touch unrelated lines.The
"remove_trailing_whitespace_on_save": "only on the lines I modified"variant would minimize conflicts in mixed teams.